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At the same time, he launched substantial economic reforms, but by then the Polish economy was severely run down.

As the long-anticipated battle began on Monday, US warplanes launched substantial bombing runs on positions around Mosul.

The EU leaders on Friday gave Russia and the rebels until Monday to take steps to ease the violence, including releasing all captives, retreating from border checkpoints, agreeing on a way to verify the cease-fire and launching "substantial negotiations" on Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko's peace plan.

We identified in this paper several leverage points for launching substantial changes in large systems.

Several large-scale international research initiatives have recently been launched, fuelling substantial financial investments in neuroscience and raising expectations for the development of new knowledge and therapies.

Republicans for Immigration Reform, a super PAC launched with substantial fanfare last fall by former commerce secretary Carlos Gutierrez and top GOP fundraiser Charlie Spies, brought in just $193,150 in the first half of the year.

"Light and optical technologies will be one of the most important technologies in the future," according to Wolf-Michael Catenhusen of the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education ( BMBF), which has just launched a substantial funding programme for the field.

UNICEF Response: In Georgia, working in concert with other humanitarian agencies and the Government of Georgia, UNICEF launched a substantial response to meet the immediate needs of the affected communities.

It dropped off the United Nations list of countries most affected by AIDS because its government was the first in Africa to launch a substantial awareness campaign.

We also think Dish Networks is likely to launch a substantial subscription streaming effort under the Blockbuster brand.

Moody's noted that BA needed to renew and expand its long-haul fleet and plans to launch a substantial aircraft-replacement program in 2008, which will weigh significantly on its free cash-flow generation and thus limit its ability to service its debt.